This Month’s Highlights

Killing Eve

Killing Eve rips. Did we expect any less from Phoebe Waller-Bridge? The follow-up to her incisive and intimate black comedy Fleabag sees the acclaimed writer and actor step away from the camera into a purely creative role, as Waller-Bridge’s sharp, pathos-fueled comedic eye is turned toward a serial killer cat-and-mouse drama. An adaptation of Luke Jennings’s Codename: Villanelle novels, Killing Eve follows Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh as one of the best dramatic leads this year) as she picks up the trail of an assassin known only as Villanelle. A psychological thriller on the scale of The Silence of the Lambs (but with considerably more wit), Killing Eve finds new life in a tired genre by placing women front and center, moving them from the genre’s favorite victims to its deeply troubled and in-over-their-heads leads. Available December 1.

Adventure Time

Adventure Time is, arguably, one of the most influential shows of the 2010s. A talent incubator for a generation of talent, and one that defined a whole era of animation, Pendleton Ward’s opus about a boy named Finn and his shape-shifting dog-pal Jake navigating a postapocalyptic wonderland (full of quiet, understated notes of tragedy) is strange and endearing, a story of innocent goodness among the ruins of a world that lost it. After ten seasons — the last of which comes to Hulu this month, and don’t worry, episodes are only 11 minutes long — it’s finally over. Say good-bye, or watch it for the first time. Available December 3.